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Roberts, R-Kan., spoke at The ’zs Westwood medical building. He said that it now takes 10 years to 17 yearasand $1 billion to brinv a new drug to which Roberts called a “nationa disgrace.” The National Cancer Institute said in Novemberd that the KU Cancer Center has a 25, 2011, application date for its efforts to get an initial five-year designation as an NCI cancer center. The months-long application proceses for institutions seeking new designations beginds with submission of documentation that sometimesexceedw 1,000 pages and includes a site visirt and other steps. The earliest that KU Cancer Center’s application coulcd be approved is the sprinhgof 2012.
Nationwide, 64 cancer centerw receive Cancer Center Support Grantsw to support research to reducethe incidence, morbiditgy and mortality rates of cancer. There are 23 canceer centers and 41 comprehensive cancer The KU Cancer Center is partof , whicj is the medical research and education arm of the Universityu of Kansas. NCI designation KU’s No. 1 prioritty — typically is granted to academicmedicaol centers. Therefore, KU Medicalp Center is the entity that will appl y forNCI designation. • Increased regional patient accesdsto cutting-edge clinical trials. More than $1.3 billion in annual economic benefitzs inthe region.
• An increase in KU Cancer Center’es annual NCI financing from thecurrenty $7.5 million to about $40 million. NCI-affiliated institutions also attractf world-class researchers who bring NCI grantzwith them, and part of the estimatedx increase is based on that. Many of these researcheras doubleas clinicians, adding expertise and deptbh in various cancer-care sub-specialties.